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Majority of Minority Rule: Public Shareholder Approval Requirement for Listed Company Mergers
The rule that minority shareholders must approve the merger does not come from the Companies Act. It comes from a SEBI circular of February 2013. Accordingly – The special resolution approving the scheme of arrangement (merger) shall be acted upon only if the votes...
Vedanta Cairn Merger: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
VIDEO UPDATED AS ON 22 JULY, 2015 Ever since news of Vedanta Cairn merger started doing rounds in brokerage houses and among the helpless retail investor community, analysts and experts have given all sorts of views on things ranging from valuation to regulation. This...
Calculate the Correct Amount of Life Insurance
Of course you can get insured for as much as you want. Higher the insurance amount, higher will be your insurance premium. Higher the premium; better it is for the insurance company. In any event you must draw a line somewhere, right? How much annual premium would you...
Insurance Planning – 5 Basic Factors to Think About
95% questions associated with insurance planning can be answered with much clarity if the enquirer has clarity on this one thing – What exactly do I need to get insured for? Typically the reasons for getting insured at an individual level are: [1] Losing your life so...
Unitech Limited – Stock Analysis
Unitech shares crashed 35.27 % on June 03, 2015. Speculations that lenders were planning to sell off pledged shares of the promoters led to this massive decline in share price. While 90.32 % of promoter’s equity is pledged (as on 31 March, 2015), the promoters on have...
Tech Mahindra Limited – Stock Analysis
Tech Mahindra Limited (“TechM” or the “Company”) operates mainly in two sectors – Telecom business and Enterprise Solutions business. Telecom business provides: (1) consulting-led integrated portfolio services to telecom equipment manufacturers and telecom service...
How Does a Company Benefit From High Stock Prices?
Note: For the purpose of this article high share price does not mean numerically high monetary value. In the explanations, core focus will be on high valuation of the stock. Did this question ever bother you – after a company raises money via its Initial Public...
Why Companies Do Rights Issues and Should You Subscribe?
What is Rights Issue Offering? Rights Issue is one of the many ways in which a company raises capital by issuing new equity shares. Unlike other means of raising capital, in a rights issue, new shares must be offered to the existing shareholders of the company in...
Identifying Stock Market Bubbles
A few years back a friend of mine recounted his experience of working at a hedge fund from its inception in 2005 to its fall in 2008. The fund which crossed U.S. $ 1 billion at one point dropped in value to below U.S. $ 300 million in less than 4 months towards the...
5 Interesting Facts on Gold Production, Consumption & Price
For us Indians, gold signifies wealth, prosperity, status and all that is auspicious. That said,it is a fact that if all Indian temples and households put together their gold reserves in one place and hand it over to the government, India may already be one of the...
Majority of Minority Rule: Public Shareholder Approval Requirement for Listed Company Mergers
The rule that minority shareholders must approve the merger does not come from the Companies Act. It comes from a SEBI circular of February 2013. Accordingly – The special resolution approving the scheme of arrangement (merger) shall be acted upon only if the votes...
Vedanta Cairn Merger: The Good, Bad and the Ugly
VIDEO UPDATED AS ON 22 JULY, 2015 Ever since news of Vedanta Cairn merger started doing rounds in brokerage houses and among the helpless retail investor community, analysts and experts have given all sorts of views on things ranging from valuation to regulation. This...
Calculate the Correct Amount of Life Insurance
Of course you can get insured for as much as you want. Higher the insurance amount, higher will be your insurance premium. Higher the premium; better it is for the insurance company. In any event you must draw a line somewhere, right? How much annual premium would you...
Insurance Planning – 5 Basic Factors to Think About
95% questions associated with insurance planning can be answered with much clarity if the enquirer has clarity on this one thing – What exactly do I need to get insured for? Typically the reasons for getting insured at an individual level are: [1] Losing your life so...
Unitech Limited – Stock Analysis
Unitech shares crashed 35.27 % on June 03, 2015. Speculations that lenders were planning to sell off pledged shares of the promoters led to this massive decline in share price. While 90.32 % of promoter’s equity is pledged (as on 31 March, 2015), the promoters on have...
Tech Mahindra Limited – Stock Analysis
Tech Mahindra Limited (“TechM” or the “Company”) operates mainly in two sectors – Telecom business and Enterprise Solutions business. Telecom business provides: (1) consulting-led integrated portfolio services to telecom equipment manufacturers and telecom service...
How Does a Company Benefit From High Stock Prices?
Note: For the purpose of this article high share price does not mean numerically high monetary value. In the explanations, core focus will be on high valuation of the stock. Did this question ever bother you – after a company raises money via its Initial Public...
Why Companies Do Rights Issues and Should You Subscribe?
What is Rights Issue Offering? Rights Issue is one of the many ways in which a company raises capital by issuing new equity shares. Unlike other means of raising capital, in a rights issue, new shares must be offered to the existing shareholders of the company in...
Identifying Stock Market Bubbles
A few years back a friend of mine recounted his experience of working at a hedge fund from its inception in 2005 to its fall in 2008. The fund which crossed U.S. $ 1 billion at one point dropped in value to below U.S. $ 300 million in less than 4 months towards the...
5 Interesting Facts on Gold Production, Consumption & Price
For us Indians, gold signifies wealth, prosperity, status and all that is auspicious. That said,it is a fact that if all Indian temples and households put together their gold reserves in one place and hand it over to the government, India may already be one of the...
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